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lorrayne

Joined: 17 Dec 2004
Posts: 239
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 4:28 pm Post subject: Looking for a free Office package
Does anyone recommend Apache? Or have any other suggestions? L

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46359
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 5:39 pm Post subject:

open office seems to do ok for me for most things but i dont do accounts on it,afaik the spreadsheet bit works.
tis quite similar to ms office and compatible with that and other systems

and foxit phantom /foxit reader if you need pdf capability for document reading/searching/editing or capture from a screen shot of a website to desk top or printer.tis easy to copy and paste into open office from foxit format.

Midlandsman

Joined: 22 May 2014
Posts: 116

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 5:58 pm Post subject:
+1 for Open Office. MM

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 6:19 pm Post subject:
Libre? Gets a good write-up in moneysavingexpert.com.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 6:47 pm Post subject:
Why a free one?

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 7:17 pm Post subject:
Libre is the go to free package

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15438
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 8:12 pm Post subject:
Aren't Libre Office and Open office very nearly the same thing? As I understand it, they were the same thing until fairly recently when they had an office schism.

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 8:23 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Aren't Libre Office and Open office very nearly the same thing?
As I understand it, they were the same thing until fairly recently when they had an office schism.

Yes pretty much but it's a bit like the Peoples Front of Judea and the Popular Front of Judea! It seems that Libre office is the guys who left the Open Office project in a huff over something but they were the ones who did most of the work

Falstaff

Joined: 27 May 2009
Posts: 1014

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 15 9:56 pm Post subject:
I had open office a few years ago - but it didn't interface terribly well with ms office and many of the things yo ucan do in ms office you couldn't do. However, it was free - and as I said - a few years ago.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46359
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 1:20 am Post subject:
the more recent version interfaces well with ms stuff and has a few neat advantages over ms office,free being one of them .i know nowt about libre but if it is from the same authors i expect it is quite good. they are both free so why not give both a go and decide which seems most intuitive /well helped and tutorialled(is that a word?) to you?

lorrayne

Joined: 17 Dec 2004
Posts: 239
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Wed Nov 25, 15 7:41 am Post subject:
Ok thank you muchly for your help - I will check out both. L

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